Ahead of the opening session for the first ever Coconut Festival to be held in Guyana this evening, farmers/producers raised the issue about the supply of coconuts for their business and the state of old plantations.
At a pre-festival activity at the Grand Coastal Inn yesterday, as part of Coconut Awareness Week, they said the scarcity of coconuts, which is also as a result of most of it being exported to the Dominican Republic (DR), would cause the price to go up…”
While there has been a lot of hype surrounding the festival, there is a view in some quarters that it won’t
